i was leaving this one to someone else but since no one's taking a stab at it, i will... altho i haven't read any, i think it's Martin...have seen a lot of conversation about him and have scanned a couple of books in the bookstore sooo...that's my guess, George RR Martin, but i have no idea what boo...

Make the Dirt Stick Chris Whitley there's nothin wrong with stayin inside there's nothing wrong stayin home tonight all week long was a world of restless whatever it takes for a little peace and quiet i got a point bein right out there now i got a well upon the hill all summer long was a rain and w...

The Joker (Steve Miller) Black Dog (Zep) Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo (Rick Derringer) Mind Games (John Lennon) Rock On (David Essex) You Haven't Done Nothin (Stevie Wonder) Hello It's Me (Todd Rundgren) Tell Me Something Good (Rufus) You Sexy Thing (Hot Chocolate) Love Hurts (Nazareth) It's Over &...

value judgements...that's what always gets us in trouble, isn't it. we're different, that's all. that's it. placing a value judgement on our differences causes resentment and is, ultimately, divisive. i'm not letting some snot in the UK make ME feel resentful of my male counterparts. forget it. not ...

some of my most favorite covers.... A Little Help From My Friends--Joe Cocker (Beatles) She Came In Through The Bathroom Window--Joe Cocker (Beatles) Highway 61--Johnny Winter (Bob Dylan) Crossroads--Cream (Robert Johnson) Love In Vain--Rolling Stones (Robert Johnson) Twist and Shout--Beatles (Isley...

am anxiously awaiting Elder Scrolls IV and Gothic III
(and playing Vampire the Masquerade:Bloodlines while I wait)

Sick Dick and the Forks

Brain Salad Surgery--Emerson, Lake, & Palmer

oh yeah! midnight movie fare, Wizards and also Heavy Metal

but i don't think anyone ever mentioned one of my all-time favorite B-grade fantasy flicks...The Sword and The Sorcerer
George Maharis, Richard Lynch, Kathleen Beller, and Lee Horsley

that was fun...do another one somebody

ah...thanks Khaliban and LM...the Luke Raynard name should have been a dead give away except its been a year since i read the entire omnibus of Amber for the first time and have read Bakker and Erikson since and i just couldn't quite get it!!!

seems Amber-ish Sorus but it also has a Jonathan Lethem feel...except i know he hasn't done a 10 book series...
sort of Gun, With Occasional Music-ish.

must be Zelazny.

so happy to see Nicola Griffith showing up on some lists!!! fabulous writer. just recently read Slow River again (third time!!).
and the first book i ever read by Leguin was Tehanu. no one writes like that woman!!

i'm halfway thru Gardens of the Moon right now!! LOVE this book!! what a completely original world.

Love him. Didn't everyone have their Kurt Vonnegut phase? Mine was just after my Herman Hesse phase! really. favorites are Sirens of Titan , Mother Night , Slaughterhouse Five , and Cat's Cradle and i DO think Mother Night is one of his best!! :) my dad still raves about Breakfast of Champions but i...

just finished r. scott bakker's The Darkness That Comes Before and The Warrior Prophet and really really enjoyed both and am awaiting the third in the series which comes out in Jan i think, and am halfway thru Steven Erikson's Gardens of the Moon which is fabulous!!!
i highly reccomend these.

my favorite opening paragraph of all time.... No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for ei...

August 20th. do we get a cake?